Our Story

A History of Success

Since its founding a century ago, Frost has been an industry leader consistently setting the quality standard among its competitors. The idea is simple—Frost engineers and manufactures higher quality products, focuses greater attention on the customer and revolutionizes the market with innovative products. Frost’s relentless pursuit toward innovation delivers solutions which enable its customers to work faster and more effectively. Innovative products brought to market over the years have made Frost the conveyor industry leader and include Splashproof Trolleys, Smooth Link rivetless X-type chain, the Sani-Trolley, Dial-A-Bolt Chain and the Frost Chain Wear Monitor to name just a few. Being the best is not easy as it requires the consistent pursuit of high quality products and great customer service. For a century, Frost has provided leadership and generated ideas that have set the standard around the world. Join us this Centennial year as we celebrate Frost’s enduring success, its legacy of innovation and its total commitment to being the industry best for its customers. We look forward to serving you for another hundred years!

Industries We Serve

Frost has a long history of serving a variety of industries. Listed below are just a few...

Red Meat Processing

Sausage Making Facilities

Poultry Processing

Automotive Processing

Automotive Power Train Systems

Automotive Parts

Foundries

Truck Assembly Plants

Truck Part Manufacturing

Appliance Manufactures

Furniture Manufactures

Airframe Builders

Porcelain Product Manufactures

Computer Equipment Manufacturing

Tier 1, 2, & 3 Suppliers to Automotive

Paint Systems

Aluminum Smelting

Heavy Duty Equipment

Off-Road Vehicles

Smokehouses

Hide Tanning Facilities

Bakeries

Retail Warehouses

Computer Manufacturing

Food Processing Systems

Package Handling

Defense Systems

Motorcycle Producers

Leisure Vehicle Industry

Lawn Tractors

Small Appliance Producers

Distribution Centers

Push Back Rack Storage Systems

Continuous Banking Systems

Plating Process

Agra Systems

Customer First

The Frost Difference

Frost is an innovative company providing our customers with material handling solutions for more than 100 years. Our customer first approach is that we recognize the longest lasting and lowest operating cost products are the best products. All of our efforts in engineering, sales, manufacturing, and quality ensure our products last the longest in the field.

Examples of our customer first approach include:

Smooth Link is the longest lasting chain in the industry.

The Frost Chain Wear Monitor is used by customers who want to maximize profits by having the fewest number of people in the maintenance department.

The Tri-Life Chain is a perfect example of long life product, lasting 3 times longer than standard chain.

Frost customers experience these advantages and have come to appreciate our customer first approach. Want more information tell us a bit about your project or needs:

Engineering

Frost Engineering works with our customers to provide a total system solution. With our quality planning methodologies we strive to ensure that all the customer requirements are captured and a solution is presented to drive the maximum amount of value into an installation.

Frost has the ability to manage your project from concept to completion. Frost Engineers utilize the latest methodologies and analysis techniques to ensure robust and problem free designs. We work closely with our customers to test designs and find ways to improve them through R&M data collection and actual field testing. Our Engineers are dedicated to rigorous quality inspection and testing throughout the production process.

Case Studies

Our Customers Tell it Best

Case Study: Smooth Link the Answer for an Automotive Plant

A large automotive and truck assembly plant in Kentucky collected data over a period of 102 weeks comparing the Frost 8640 chain to one of our competitors “premium” forged pin chain on the same paint line. The data reported shows that over the 102 week period that the Frost chain was superior to the competitor's chain.

Case Study: 27,000 Custom Push Back Wheels, Delivered in 6 Weeks

A customer came to us with a challenge: they needed 27,000 push back wheels delivered within six weeks from order. Our customer encountered this challenge when an overseas manufacturer had fallen behind on their shipments and left our customer unable to fill critical orders. Could Frost help? Normally this type of request is not a problem and probably could have been completed in half the requested time. The challenge Frost confronted was that the push back wheel was a custom design. Frost needed to re-engineer, design, prototype, and build the product within the limited time frame. Moreover, the six week time-frame included the Thanksgiving Day holiday, which further reduced the time Frost had to complete the job. Through our excellent project management, engineering, sourcing, and manufacturing capabilities Frost was able to deliver on-time and on-price. Although the behind the scenes efforts were heroic, to our customer it was a pleasant and “business as expected” delivery. From Design to Delivery, Frost manufactured 27,000 custom push back wheels within six weeks to the satisfaction of the customer.

Case Study: Pork Processing Plant

The Customer Smithfield was experiencing excessive chain breakages on a Blast Chill chain. These breakages caused many days of downtime and low productivity. Drivers included added costs associated with operational and mechanical overtime,low run time efficiencies, and the overall frustrations of not running well. Chain breakages were occurring as early as 8 months after installation of the X-658 chain; creating an average of 4-6 hours downtime with each occurrence. With each break, the chain became weaker resulting in an increased frequency of failures. In the pursuit of changing over the Blast Chill chain from an X-658 chain to an X-678 chain contact was made with several vendors; but it was Frost Inc. who quickly became the vendor of choice. Frost had already proven themselves in other chain applications in the plant. After determining Frost was the best option, we were contacted about the project; budgetary numbers were generated and several weeks were spent planning the replacement. Plant maintenance staff worked around the clock beginning after a Friday night shift through Sunday night; removing the existing X-658 and replacing it with the Frost X-678 chain. Only time has proven that the chain has maintained its integrity. After 22 months (as opposed to the previous 8 months with the existing chain) the X-678 chain system from Frost has not broken a link and has proven to be an extremely reliable system.